adjective
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covered with green vegetation
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(of plants, etc) green in colour
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immature or unsophisticated; green
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of verdant
Explanation
When something is green with plant life it's verdant, a word often used to idealize the countryside with its verdant pastures or verdant hills. Here's a trick for internalizing verdant's meaning: If you speak Spanish, think of verde — meaning "green." If you speak French, think of vert. Both French and Spanish inherited their words for green from Latin, in which green is viridis. Verdant also can mean grass-colored: "She wore a dress of verdant green."
Vocabulary lists containing verdant
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Example Sentences
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He returned from the United States to live in east Yorkshire, but a few years later moved to northern France after falling in love with the verdant landscapes that inspired impressionist master Claude Monet.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
Like him, the film is quiet and meditative, bathed in the cool blues and verdant greens of the setting, captured in Maya Bankovic’s saturated cinematography.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Fold in winter greens — kale, escarole, spinach — and let them wilt just until tender but still verdant.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026
The Karoo Basin, once contiguous with Antarctica—and later underwater and now semi-arid—was a verdant home for what the show says were six basic groups of therapsids.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Once they reached the valley floor, the going was faster and they made good time, cantering through verdant green-woods and sleepy little hamlets, past orchards and golden wheat fields, splashing across a dozen sunlit streams.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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